Senator Manka Dhingra Press Conference

Washington State Senate (press conference) · February 13, 2026

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Opening and speaker introduction

Announcement

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Senator Manka De Grama opened the press conference, identified herself as deputy majority leader of the Washington State Senate and chair of a law-and-justice committee representing the 45th Legislative District, and framed the event as focused on policies to prevent gender-based violence and support survivors.

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Advocates, survivors and Washington lawmakers held a press conference urging the Legislature to restore roughly $21.38 million in victim-services funding, pressed the House to pass an "Ebony Alert" for missing Black women and girls, and outlined bills to protect child survivors and so-called defendant-survivors from retraumatization in court.

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